Soil Treatment Data from Scottish Field Experiment 1999-2002

Sourhope, Scotland field experiment data details treatments applied to plots between 1999 and 2004. It serves as an explanatory variable for other datasets from the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme, which monitored changes in above-ground biomass production, species composition, and relative abundance.

Use Cases

• Analyze treatment effects on above-ground biomass production as a key monitored variable.
• Use treatment data as an explanatory variable for species composition and diversity studies from the programme.
• Correlate plot treatments with other experimental datasets from the NERC Soil Biodiversity site.

Strengths

• Data originates from a large, intensive field experiment established by the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme.
• Covers a multi-year temporal range from 1999 to 2004.
• Managed by the Environmental Information Data Centre with a persistent DOI for citation.

Limitations

• Specific data structure (rows, columns, sample) is unavailable for assessment.
• The dataset's utility is dependent on access to other, unspecified experimental datasets from the programme.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Monitoring of experimental plots at a field site.

Time Range

1999-2004

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Sourhope, Scottish Borders, Scotland (Grid reference: NT8545019630)